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Senior Admininistration

Mitchell R. Creem
Chief Executive Officer, USC University Hospital and
USC Norris Cancer Hospital

Mitchell R. Creem was named chief executive officer of USC University Hospital and USC Norris Cancer Hospital as the University of Southern California took over ownership of these two facilities on April 1, 2009. Having served as vice provost since June 2008, he provided leadership and guidance in the areas of operational planning, capital planning and financing strategies, clinical programming, and strategic planning during the university's negotiations to reacquire the hospitals from Tenet Healthcare Corporation.

Before joining USC, Creem served as associate vice chancellor and chief financial officer for the UCLA Medical Sciences, where he was responsible for a combined budget of more than $2 billion, including more than $400 million in medical sciences research. He also served briefly as interim chief information officer for medical sciences at UCLA.

Creem has 25 years of management experience in the hospital and healthcare sector. He has served as chief financial officer for two university teaching hospitals, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Harvard University) and Tufts-New England Medical Center, and also held several key administrative and financial positions at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Additionally, he worked for several years in a senior management position at the Healthcare Practice Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Creem holds a master’s degree in health administration from Duke University and a bachelor of science in accounting and business administration from Boston University. He has served on the boards of numerous community hospitals and hospital/physician joint ventures and has been a guest lecturer at USC, UCLA and Harvard University.